Veterans mental health services are focus of Stivers' visit

Representative visits Chillicothe VA, discusses issues

8:31 AM,
Jan. 9, 2013

U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers checks out the beginning stages of a building expansion project under way at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center. Stivers, whose 15th District was recently redrawn to include the northern portion of Ross County, visited the facility for the first time Tuesday.

The Republican congressman from Upper Arlington, who's also a colonel in the Ohio Army National Guard, was making his first visit to the facility. Stivers has been familiarizing himself with a newly redrawn 15th Congressional District that now includes the northern part of Ross County.

Joined by the medical center's directors and chief of staff, Stivers toured several buildings on the 308-acre campus, passing through the ...